Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 33
“Na hoku paa” were “the fastened stars, immovable in the heavens.”
Who acts: hoku paa · What happens: fasten, be · To what, where: heavens
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hoku paa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 paa | punct |
| 2 | Na | Na | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 paa | dep |
| 3 | hoku | hoku | X | _ | 4 paa | compound |
| 4 | paa | paa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 immovable | nsubj |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 paa | punct |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 immovable | cop |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 immovable | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stars | det |
| 9 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stars | amod |
| 10 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 immovable | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 immovable | punct |
| 12 | immovable | immovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heavens | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heavens | det |
| 15 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 immovable | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 immovable | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 immovable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten in a quote | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | hoku paa | the heavens | the fastened stars nsubj; immovable property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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